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November 23, 2005

Stuffing inventor dies; road signs, Link Wray, new garden blog

I am flat out, trying to compress a week's work on our site into three days, with some key people on vacation. Time for an old-fashioned links dump -- it used to be called "emptying your notebook" but these days I just email links to myself.

1:02 a.m.
Such timing: Ruth M. Siems, Inventor of Stuffing, Dies at 74. She invented the crumb size that makes Stove Top Stuffing work, actually; she was definitely not the first to put bread and herbs in a bird.

6:21 p.m.
Swanksigns -- "dedicated to the art of mocking public works" collects very strange but real road signs.

New Scientist: GM pea causes allergic damage in mice. Frankenfood.

A decade-long project to develop genetically modified peas with built-in pest-resistance has been abandoned after tests showed they caused allergic lung damage in mice.

God's Debris -- a short book by Dilbert creator Scott Adams -- is now available as a free pdf. It's not a cartoon book.

Link Wray 1929-2005: The man who made the power chord dance dies in Norway -- he married a Danish lady and moved to Copenhagen 20 years ago. Reverend Frost has mp3s.

Houston Chronicle website drops registration requirement. Here's hoping it's a movement.

V8-ENGINE Paper Model: With movies. Sorry, "D.I.Y. kit is not available temporary" but if it were, it would cost 100 CAD. ($84.95)

Internet Speed Test: See if you're getting the speed your Internet Service Provider advertises.

Singapore Students Invent Waterless Washing Machine: "It's not meant to replace the traditional washing machine, but it's more a hybrid of the washing machine and the dry cleaner," The Straits Times quoted Chua (co-inventor Wendy Chua, 21) as saying.

75-year-old jewel thief looks back: Style and cunning allowed her to confuse store clerks. AP.

Where the Tech Buffs Shop: Business Week on NewEgg.com

Mirrors shed light as winter grips small town: In Rattenburg, Austria, the winter sun never makes it above the mountain, so they're going to reflect sun into the town.
The link goes to IOL in South Africa. USA Today publishes the AP take.

The ultimate guide to Google services: There's a new piece of Google wheeled out every few days, it seems. Here's the roadmap.

The Optimistic Gardener. Linn in Molkom, Sweden:

The people I help with gardening advise usually want a nice garden to surround the house they live in. When we bought our home I bought a garden and luckily there was a house in it too. Both ways of looking at the garden are perfectly all right. They just are very different.

I live with my garden, follow it and am constantly being fascinated by it. For me, gardening is a process. When I weed and find a plant I do not recognize I have to let it grow just to see what it is.

Added to the Garden Blogs list.

Wired News: Say Sayonara to Blurry Pics. But not quite yet:

A computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University has outfitted a 16-megapixel camera with a bevy of micro lenses that allows users to take photos and later refocus them on a computer using software he wrote.

The student, Ren Ng, ran out of patience with taking pictures the traditional way -- adjusting the distance between the camera lens and sensor or film before snapping each shot. So he created something that far surpasses Photoshop. A photograph can be modified after the fact even if nothing is in focus, he said...

Herring Break Wind to Communicate, Study Suggests

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